Chapter 41 Now it came to pass in the seventh month That Ishmael the son of nathaniah the Son of elishima of the royal family and Of the officers of the king Came with ten men to get Alaya the son Of a haikum at mispah And there they ate bread together in Mizpah Then Ishmael the son of nephaniah and The ten men who were with him a rose Unstruck get a liar the son of a haikum The son of shafen with the sword And killed him whom the king of Babylon Had made Governor over the land Ishmael also struck down all the Jews Who were with him that is with gedaliah At mispah and the Chaldeans who were Found there the men of War And it happened on the second day after He had killed get Alaya when as yet no One knew it that certain men came from Shechem from Shiloh and from Samaria 80 men with their beards shaved and Their clothes torn having cut themselves With offerings and incense in their hand To bring them to the house of the Lord Now Ishmael the son of nephaniah went Out from mizpah to meet them weeping as He went along And it happened as he met them that he Said to them Come to get a liar the son of a haikum So it was when they came into the midst
Of the city that Ishmael the son of Nathaniah killed them and cast them into The midst of a pit he and the men who Were with him But 10 men were found among them who Said to Ishmael do not kill us for we Have Treasures of wheat barley oil and Honey in the field So he desisted and did not kill them Among their brethren Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast All the dead bodies of the men whom he Had slain because of get a liar Was the Same One Acer the king had made For fear of bayesha king of Israel Ishmael the son of nathaniah filled it With the slain Then Ishmael carried away captive all The rest of the people who were in Mispah the King's Daughters and all the People who remained in mispah whom Nevers arrayed and the captain of the Guard had committed to get Alaya the son Of a haikum And Ishmael the son of nethaniah carried Them away captive and departed to go Over to the ammonites But when Joe Hainan the son of Korea and All the captains of the forces that were With him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of nathaniah had done They took all the men and went to fight With Ishmael the son of nathaniah And they found him by the great pool
That is in gibeon So it was when all the people who were With Ishmael saw johanan the son of Korea and all the captains of the forces Who were with him that they were glad Then all the people whom Ishmael had Carried away captive from mispah turned Around and came back and went to johanan The son of Korea But Ishmael the son of nethaniah escaped From johanan with eight men and went to The ammonites Then johanan the son of Korea and all The captains of the forces that were With him took from mispah all the rest Of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of nethaniah after he Had murdered getalaya the son of a Haikum The Mighty Men of War and the women and The children and the eunuchs whom he had Brought back from gibeon And they departed and dwelt in the Habitation of Kim ham which is near Bethlehem as they went on their way to Egypt because of the Chaldeans For they were afraid of them because Ishmael the son of nathaniah had Murdered get Alaya the son of a haikum Whom the king of Babylon had made Governor in the land